Tank Rat's Sketchbook

[Tank Rat]

You are getting wierd cylinder are you aware of this?Specially where the cylinder wrap around the bottom creating to much of a corner instead of a clean ellipse.

I am not sure if it just due to a leak of paying enough attention to cleaning your edge or if you would benefit from pratice making cylinder. To find out if you have some common cylinder issue i recommend you draw 10 or 20 cylinder just black and white no shading needed and drawing them as if the cylinder is made of glass.But the issue seem to be when you want to turn your two ellipse into a cylinder you don't know which part we would see and which part we wouldn't see so in away you have trouble to estimate where the plane of the cylinder start to curve away from your eye .

Don't forget to think about ramping up the difficulty if thing become to easy.I could give you advise as to how to do that but that should be pretty straight foward.

I understand where you're coming from. I recently tried going from doing everything as if I was working with charcoal, to using the selection and line tool to make things cleaner. It was easier to do with objects with corners and flat surfaces like cubes and prisms. Things became way more difficult when I tried painting the cylinders this way. I knocked out a page of cylinder using the clean method. While they're not perfect, I think I've learned enough  to make things look better when working with rounder objects.